#MeToo in Silicon Valley: Google CEO says company investigates every sexual misconduct complaintCEO Sundar Pichai said in a an email that Google has fired 48 employees for sexual harassment in the past two years.

In this, Pichai was surely right, too. Ever since humans got hold of free services like Google and Facebook, they've shown little care about what they're giving up, preferring to bathe in the joy of free.

Sample: "For Google services, you have a choice of what information is collected, and we make it transparent."

This, again technically, is true. How many people, though, truly know what it all means? And how many have simply given up and assume that every one of their actions is being routinely monitored?

At various times, Pichai claimed that 160 million or even 170 million people had gone to their My Account settings in the last 28 days.

What, though, did they do?

"We give clear toggles, by category, where they can decide whether that information is collected, stored, or, more importantly, if they decide to stop using it, we work hard to make it possible for users to take their data with them," said Pichai.

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